QuarkXPress 8: Essential Skills for Page Layout and Web Design

This guide makes quick work of the most useful features in QuarkXPress 8, without unnecessary documentation. The best QuarkXPress book on the basics--covers the primary features needed to do layout, but not all the features in the program The opposite of a Dummies book, this book assumes the audience needs help with QuarkXPress and publishing issues, not the computer Focuses on the most efficient way to do things and provides real world tips and techniques on publishing and workflow This is a new Peachpit one-off title that focuses on the basic techniques of QuarkXPress 8 software for print and Web workflows. It provides only the essential tips and techniques without the comprehensive documentation found in other books. It presents the program in a way that users actually now learn QuarkXPress (20 years after the program was introduced), unlike other books that still teach QuarkXPress as if the audience doesnt know the computer. The dynamic author team, Kelly Kordes Anton and John Cruise, have both worked at Quark in the past, and have been using the program since its very first release--they know it inside and out! Together, they walk readers through all things QuarkXPress 8, including: Workspaces, Documents, Pages, Items, Type, Text, Tables, Graphics, Color, Print, PDF, Web, and Flash. There is also a section dedicated to helping users retrain the QuarkXPress 4 mind set. QuarkXPress 8 was released in August 2008 and represents paradigm changes not seen since 3.0 was released 14 years ago. QuarkXPress 8 is currently available for US$799, or $299 for an upgrade from any previous version. -